When you find yourself being less offended and more loving toward people you will realize the love of Jesus has taken hold.
04134 – Offended vs. Loving
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04079 – Being Alone
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
03852 – Testing Christianity
The true test of Christianity isn't just loving Jesus... It's loving Judas.
03549 – The Truth of the Matter is…
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to...
03483 – Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy
Religion without the Spirit, without authentic spirituality, basically becomes a way to give divine sanction/endorsement/legitimization to our biases and prejudices and it becomes a way to maintain the status quo. It also becomes a means of exerting control over...
03086 – The Standard of “Biblical Manhood”
The church tends to hold up a standard of “biblical manhood” that simultaneously emasculates men (you are helpless to control your sexual urges) and beastifies them (you must RULE your marriage and family and keep them under control). Neither approach reflects...
02926 – Happiness is…
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
02796 – Sentimental vs. Loving
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.--------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: To show compassion for...
02776 – First Half vs. Second Half
I am beginning to suspect that the second half of life is about learning to let go of everything I feverishly collected over the first half that wasn't loving or human.